（搬运）The Pretender 剧本

Sweeper I thought you quit.
Miss Parker Shut up. Where were you going Sydney? Damn it!
Sweeper What?
Miss Parker No smoke. Outta my way!
Sydney I’m sorry Jarod I didn’t know. You have to believe me. But it doesn’t matter.
Jarod It matters to me. I am not going to be your little science experiment anymore, Sydney. I can be anything I want to be. You trained me well. I can be a doctor, I can be an engineer, I can be an astronaut for God’s sake.
Sydney And so much more.
Jarod But I don’t know who I am! Tell me who I am.
Sydney I don’t know either. At the time I had no reason to question what the Centre told me. I swear.
Jarod Then prove it. Give me tomorrow’s code to the Centre’s mainframe. The truth about who I am has to be in there.
Sydney You know I can’t do that.
Jarod Sydney you stole my life! Please give it back to me.
Miss Parker Sydney! Shoot him.
Sydney 7512. Go! No! No guns.
Miss Parker Let me go! Make up your mind Sydney. Be a scientist or a mommy. You can’t be both.
PA Your attention please. Final call for all passengers departing on the Atlantic Special to Washington DC with stops in Trenton, Philadelphia and Baltimore. Now boarding on platform 12. All aboard please.
Jarod Excuse me. Gwen! Gwen!
Gwen Dr Russell.
Jarod Can I speak to you for a minute?
Gwen Is there a problem? You’re not supposed to have that.
Jarod I knew that Trader was involved. What I couldn’t figure out was why anybody help him cover it up.
Gwen I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Jarod I didn’t either until I found this. It’s a printout of your record. Who else knew that you were in prison besides Trader?
Gwen Who the hell are you?
Jarod Someone who doesn’t think that what happened to Kevin Bailey was fair.
Gwen And you thing that I do? You don’t know what it took to get back on my feet. I’ve got a job, I’ve got a good man, I’ve got a beautiful baby boy. I don’t want to lose them.
Jarod I don’t want you to lose anything. Just tell the truth.
Gwen What would you do if your wife came home and told you that she’d been a crack head and a convict?
Jarod I’d say that she’d paid her debt and I’d ask her why she didn’t trust me enough to tell me the truth. At least I think that’s what I would do.
Gwen You don’t know how scared I am.
Jarod I think I do.
Gwen I had to page Dr Trader that night at the Silver Rail. We all knew he drank but nobody wanted to admit it. I showed him the x-rays. Even I knew that the boy should have been stabilised. But he insisted I was wrong and.. .
Jarod He was the doctor.
Gwen He severed the little boy’s spinal cord when he moved him. But it was Dr Hendricks who covered it all up and threatened to expose my past if I didn’t go along. See, when Trader realised what he’d done he gave me the pre-op x-rays and told me to burn them. But I couldn’t. I went to Dr Hendricks instead. I don’t know why I thought it would do any good. He’s been covering fro Trader for years. He took the x-rays and he made me swear that I wouldn’t tell anybody that he had them. He said he might be able to use them for insurance.
Jarod Thank you.
Gwen Dr Hendricks isn’t going to give you that film. He’d rather die than risk that hospital sale.
Trader Dr Trader.
Jarod Alan? It’s Jarod. We need to talk.
Trader About what?
Jarod Uh, not on the phone. Can you meet me today at the Silver Rail. At noon?
Trader I’ll be there.
Jarod Thanks Al an.
Jarod Miles, Jarod Russell.
Hendricks Jarod! What can I do for you?
Jarod How about another game of racquetball?
Hendricks Why would you want another game so soon after I crushed you Russell?
Jarod To return the favour. How about today, at noon?
Hendricks Well, It’s your funeral.
Jarod Well, we all have to go sometime.
Hendricks Point, game, match. Toss me my water will ya?.
Jarod Sure Miles.
Hendricks So Jarod, why this self torture?
Jarod Well you know, I figure I let you win a few games, I earn your pity, you cut me a better stock option.
Hendricks But my pity doesn’t come cheap. Let me tell you something. You ran me all over that court today. You are getting better.
Jarod I’ve been practicing.
Hendricks Ah. But I won.
Jarod Are you okay Miles?
Hendricks Jarod.
Jarod Miles? Could somebody call an ambulance.
Denise Doctor Russell says he’s running a bit late.
Trader Show me a doctor who isn’t, huh? I’ll have another quick one.
Jarod Get OR three set. Dr Hendricks is having a heart attack.
Nurse Roger that.
Jarod Pulse is 112 and thready. BP is dropping from 75 to 60. I want you to start him on a nitro drip and get him prepared for surgery, stat!
Miss Parker You lied to me. Last night you told me that Jarod came here to return the five million. All he really wanted was the mainframe code.
Sydney It was the least I could do. He was lied to about his parents. So was I.
Miss Parker Stop pouting. It was need to know. You didn’t. Anyway you’ve done us all a great favour. You see I tagged Jarod’s file. He logged on this morning.
Sydney Where is he?
Miss Parker Queen of Angels Hospital. They’re bringing the car around now. Let’s go.
Sydney The Centre wants him alive.
Miss Parker Preferably.
Jarod Miles, we were unable to bring in a cardiologist fast enough. But don’t worry, I’ve paged Dr Trader.
Hendricks No.
Jarod He’ll take care of you Miles. He took care of Kevin Bailey.
Hendricks No. Please. You do the operating.
Jarod Okay. Okay, o-okay Miles. No problem. But first… you tell me where Kevin Bailey’s pre-op x-rays are.
Hendricks Behind the Punjab painting in my office. Now you do the operation Jarod.
Jarod I-I-I’d like to Miles, I really would but that wouldn’t be ethical. You see I’m not really a doctor and you’re not really having a heart attack. Trader, he’s all yours.
Trader Okay. Let’s do this.
Hendricks Jarod. Jarod!
Miss Parker We’ll start on the first floor and work our way up. Jarod does not leave.
Jarod Nicole? Would you page Security and have them stop Doctor Trader from operating. He’s drunk.
Nicole Oh my God!
Jarod Yeah!
Miss Parker You take that side.
Sydney Jarod!
Mrs Nikkos Guess what? Guess what I did today?
Jarod Oh! Oh well that’s great.
Miss Parker Sorry! He’s got to be in one of these rooms.
Mrs Nikkos Arghhhhhhh!
Miss Parker Let’s go!
Mrs Nikkos Hey! A man! He went up the fire escape.
Miss Parker He’s heading for the roof.
Sydney Jarod!
PA Your attention please, flight 1428 to San Diego will be departing from gate 12. Please have your boarding passes ready.
Attendant You’d better board sir. You don’t want to miss the flight.
Jarod Don’t worry. They’re not going anywhere without me.

Martha The King file. You sure picked a sensitive one. It’s all down hill after this one. You should talk to Bilson. This was his baby.
Jarod How so?
Martha Well it happened during his regular Tuesday night patrol so Bilson was in charge. It was a tough one too. No one was sure how King’s boat went down. Never did find it. This one was particularly sad. The coroner said that Tom King treaded water for a day and a half before he drowned. For an SAR team to come up empty – that’s the kind of news that hurts the most.
Jarod This report says that the search patterns were based on water current information provided by directional buoys.
Martha Yep! Dropped them myself.
Jarod Pilcher’s Point?
Martha That’s the area that Tom King was known to be fishing in.
Jarod So Bilson deployed standard grid searches south east of that point.
Martha That’s SOP. You seem to be following this fine. What is the matter?
Jarod According to satellite monitoring, the DF buoys indicated that the current was moving southwest.
Girl You’re doing it wrong.
Jarod Hmm?
Girl Didn’t you ever eat a cookie as a kid.
Jarod They didn’t have cookies where I grew up?
Girl Where’d you grow up? Mars?
Jarod Sort of.
Girl First you twist the cookie so the top comes off. Like a little lid. Then you get all the white stuff off. I pick it with my teeth or you can scrape it or lick it.
Jarod Then what do you do with the brown part?
Girl Grown ups put it in ice cream.
Jarod Why don’t they just sell the white stuff?
Girl It wouldn’t be any fun.
Jarod Your mum works hard.
Girl Since my Dad died that’s all she does. He’s with St Andrew, the one for fishermen. I bought my Dad a statue of him from Church. It was on his boat. They never found that.
Jarod It’s hard to lose a parent. I know. What part do you miss the most?
Girl My mom’s smile.
DSA 4/13/70
Young Jarod I can’t figure it out.
Sydney You have to.
Young Jarod How much is oxygen is left?
Sydney Less than forty-eight hours.
Young Jarod Well, what caused the explosion?
Sydney We don’t know.
Young Jarod Fuel. Oxygen. There’s nothing that can save us!
Sydney It’s your duty to save your crew.
Young Jarod No I can’t do it!
Sydney You shut down now you will all die! Come on Jarod. Think!
Young Jarod Wait. Wait. I’ve got it. I can use the gravitational pull of the moon to help get us back.
Sydney Very good Jarod. I knew you would save them if you wanted to.
Jarod They didn’t want to save Tom King. They wanted him to die.
Miss Parker What?
Jarod Oh, I intentionally wake you in your deepest sleep phase and all I get is a lifeless “What”?
Miss Parker Oh. If you want wit read Noel Coward. What time is it where you are?
Jarod Cute. Not funny, but cute.
Miss Parker You’re making house calls now. I’m honoured.
Jarod Well, I was feeling a little guilty about my virtual phone game.
Miss Parker You know, I should really tape this to replay at the Christmas party. You’ll be there you know. You can rest assured.
Jarod I’m not resting much at all these days.
Miss Parker Breaking my heart. So Jarod, why the YMCA?
Jarod I was watching retro night on VH1. And they were doing the 70s, which as you know I missed. There was this singing group that was extolling the virtues of staying at the Y. So here I am.
Miss Parker Cute, not funny, but cute.
Jarod Did you know that they make fake dog poop? It’s amazing how it appears to be one thing but it’s really something completely different.
Miss Parker And I should care because . . . ?
Jarod Well, this sort of thing could be a real money maker for the Centre. Besides isn’t it just the perfect metaphor for the way your father and the Centre distort the truth?
Miss Parker And what truth is that Jarod?
Jarod It’s all in the note I sent you. The truth about what makes you sad.
Bilson I doubt whether the boys at Katima Bay are sittin’ beach side this time of the year.
Jarod Probably freezing their butts off on some futile cape-hopping SAR.
Bilson So besides the obvious why pull up stakes?
Jarod Well, I was feeling kinda cooped up where I was living, so I decided to head out west. I interviewed at the Channel Islands Station first but I decided this was the spot for me.
Bilson Well, you made the right decision. The Channel Islands is full of our rejects.
Jarod That’s funny they said this group was a bunch of renegades.
Javi Here you go, sir.
Jarod They said that this group was a bunch of renegades.
Javi That’s a crock.
Jarod They said guys who couldn’t rescue a fisherman from their own bay didn’t deserve to wear the uniform.
Javi Were they talking about the King rescue?
Jarod Yes. I think that was the name they used. Did something go wrong?
Bilson You know, it’s amazing how the people we put our lives on the line for can just turn around and smear the Guard with one news story. The man’s wife took it hard. She blamed us. I understand her tragedy. I guess she had to blame somebody so she could deal with it. I promise you we did everything we could do to save that man. We did our job.
Flashback
Martha Pilcher’s Point is where Tom King was known to be fishing.
Jarod The current was going southwest.
Martha No one was sure how King’s boat went down. Never did find it.
Miss Parker What? I’m on my way.
Broots It wasn’t easy but I-I have to admit, figuring Jarod’s mind is a real treat. He’s a damn clever guy.
Miss Parker He’s a one man Siegfried and Abbott. Show me what you have.
Broots Okay. We backtracked the call, we thought was coming from this YMCA from Jarod’s room, room 334. Jarod inter-connected a hundred and seventy-three international calls but-but backtracking those calls was impossible because instead of a call forwarding device triggered by a single call all of the hundred and seventy-three calls were individually initiated.
Sydney Ingenious.
Broots And a hell of a lot of work for Jarod I might add and and very expensive.
Miss Parker I don’t care what it cost.
Broots Oh, that’s good because he charged it to your calling card.
Miss Parker Where is he?
Broots Oh, oh the the last place we would expect to look. Room 335.
Miss Parker In the same Y?
Broots In the very next room.

Jarod Ha ha, gotcha. I found this in a novelty shop on the pier.
Javi Yeah very funny.
Jarod Just when you think it’s your lucky day you find out it’s not.
Javi So, what are you doing here?
Jarod Same as you. Looking for peace of mind. And the answer to why she will never see her father again.
Javi Who the hell are you, huh?
Jarod I don’t really know. But last night I became you. And I realised why you come here so much. Why you feel so guilty. And why you and Bilson didn’t save a father’s life.
Javi We searched for him for two days.
Jarod But you made sure the search was in areas where you knew he wouldn’t be found. You couldn’t afford for him to be found alive, could you?
Javi You don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.
Jarod I do know that you and Bilson make the same patrol in the south sector every Tuesday night and every Wednesday afternoon you make a rather sizeable deposit into your private account on Coronado. So, just what kind of contraband were you running?
Jarod You’re crazy man.
Jarod Am I? The paint on the hull is going to match the rescue cruiser you and Bilson were in the night he went down. You can search everywhere you want for salvation, but the only place you’re gonna find it is in the truth you’re running from.
Javi Me and Bilson meet a Mexican hauler named the Santa Marca every Tuesday night, bringing in a shipment of something. I think it’s rock but I’m not positive. We’re just paid delivery boys. I don’t know how we hit his boat. It was foggy. I just-just couldn’t see it but we sheared it right in half. And then… Then I swung around and, and spotted him in the water.
Jarod He was still alive.
Javi Yeah. He looked up at me and… all I could think was what a small world. I used to see him with his daughter and his wife at Mass. And I think he recognised me too. And then he put his hand up to me. So I tried to pull him on board but Bilson stopped me. He literally put a gun to my head and told me to leave him.
Jarod If you saved him?
Javi Yeah, we’d go to jail. But I’ll take prison in a heartbeat if I can get out of this hell I’m in.
Jarod Hey could you do me a favour? Now that’s funny.
Jarod I’m sorry I’m late sir.
Bilson Late for what?
Jarod Patrol. I just got the call this morning about riding with you.
Bilson Riding with me? Where’s Javi?
Jarod I don’t know sir. They told me he was sick.
Bilson Sick?
Jarod Actually I’m not feeling very well myself. Bad sushi. You mind if I hit the head and catch up with you?
Bilson Nah, sure, sure.
Jarod Is there something wrong?
Bilson No. Everything’s great.
Jarod Alright. I will see you in a minute.
Bilson Where’s 45?
Tech I guess it’s on patrol. The Christi’s…
Bilson Yeah purring, I know. Javi? Javi?
Radio Santa Marca to Robin 247. Santa Marca to Robin 247. Come in 247.
Bilson Are you insane? We’re not on a scheduled radio contact until tonight.
Radio We are confirming that we got your message. As per your request, the rendezvous will be at 10 am today. You will be there Javi? Hello Javi?
Bilson Alright today. I’ll be there.
Radio Adios.
Jarod Oh there you are sir. I’m ready if you are.
Bilson Oh it’s alright, Lieutenant. It’s a routine patrol. I’ll do it alone.
Jarod Are you sure?
Bilson Yeah. Yeah. Go take care of your gut man.
Jarod Well thank you sir.
YMCA
Miss Parker You couldn’t tell us he lived next door?
Man You didn’t ask.
Sydney Paint.
Miss Parker Come on.
The Christi
Coast Guard Pier
Miss Parker Excuse me, have either of you seen this man?
The Christi
Bilson That’s just great. That’s great. Great. Purring like a damn kitten. Rescue 45, come in. Is that you Javi? Rescue 45 you’re on a direct course for my craft. Veer off. Rescue 45 veer off. Rescue 45 you’re coming straight at me. Rescue 45. Veer off. Veer off. Hey!
Jarod Oh my God!
Bilson What the hell’s the wrong with you man? Are you blind or something. Toss me a line.
Jarod I can’t sir.
Bilson What?
Jarod I’m sorry. But I can’t rescue you.
Bilson You’re bucking for a court martial Lieutenant.
Jarod That is serious sir, but you see a court martial, it won’t exactly affect me. You see, I’m not really a lieutenant. The truth is I’m not really in the Coast Guard.
Bilson You get me out of here.
Jarod Oh, don’t worry. You’ll be okay. Men have been known to tread water for days.
Bilson This isn’t funny.
Jarod Oh, you’re right. It’s terrifying. You’re all alone. You can’t see anything but water and you start thinking about what might be down there. What just bumped you below the surface? And after a while your nerves will settle down, but unfortunately, that’s when your body starts to ache and the only way to stop the pain is to stop treading. But then you start to sink. And in that instant between life and death you think about all the people and all the things you left behind. So you start fighting your way back to the surface. You fight for your life.
Bilson You can’t leave me here.
Jarod Sure I can. Just like you left Tom King.
Bilson No. No. No. Noooo!
Coast Guard Station
Javi Excuse me sir. There’s something you have to see.
Commander What’s this?
javi The truth, sir.
Rescue 45
Jarod Rescue Unit 45 to base. Requesting pick up near DF Buoy Number 29. Oh, take your time getting there. It’s just a little . . . floating debris.
Pursuit Boat
Miss Parker There he is.
Sydney Hello Jarod.
Jarod Hello Sydney.
Miss Parker Give that to me! There’s no where to go this time.
Jarod Sydney raised me to believe my mind could take me anywhere.
Sydney He’s out of fuel.
Miss Parker It’s like I told you Sydney, the smart ones always do something stupid. Get him.
Sydney He’s not there?
Miss Parker How?
Sam I don’t know. But he left you this.
Magdeline
Jarod Hiya Abbott!
Abbott Jarod!
Jarod Nice day for a swim.
DSA 13th April, 1970
Young Jarod What’s that Sydney?
Sydney I don’t know.
Catherine Parker Noooooooo! No! No!
Young Jarod They’re trying to hurt her!
Sydney Stay here Jarod.
Sweeper Get her off the elevator.
Young Jarod Stop!
Sweeper Get the kid out of here.
Sydney No Jarod. Stay back.
Sweeper Get her out of here. Get her out of the elevator.
Miss Parker It’s me. I want to know what really happened to my mom.
San Diego Marina
Jarod Thanks Abbott.
Abbott Hey it ain’t nothing.
Jarod Magdaline’s out there somewhere. What are you going to do?
Abbott think I’ll take a walk. Thank you. How about you?
Jarod I think I’ll take a drive.
Race Track
Announcer Gentlemen. Start your engines.

Airplane Graveyard
DSA 14 Jan, ’69
Sydney Don’t tell me what you see Jarod tell me what you feel. Tell me what you feel.
Young Jarod I feel tired. My legs hurt.
Sydney Push with the pain. Focus. We need details.
Young Jarod This helmet’s too tight. It’s hot. I don’t like this. Why can’t I get a bike that actually goes somewhere? Sydney. Sydney!
Jarod Just a minute. Hello Mr Hollis. How are you?
Hollis Fine. Super. Great.
Jarod Can I help you with something?
Hollis Why do you need a second phone line?
Jarod It’s for my modem. I’m up loading something.
Hollis Oh. One of those.
Jarod One of those?
Hollis Sheep. People who don’t mind giving up their privacy. Baa.
Jarod Excuse me?
Hollis It’s too late. They know.
Jarod They?
Hollis The black helicopters. The grey men. Like those Skyvionics people. I’ve been on that place. It’s been out there since World War Two, doing some very cockamamy things. What’s in the case?
Jarod Memories.
Hollis Pictures?
Jarod Something like that.
Hollis Why would you want a computer if I gave you a perfectly good TV. See, universal remote even. Runs everything but your life.
Jarod Yes, but they could be watching you through the TV.
Hollis No reverse imaging device. I inspected it. I also took the liberty of programming this to skip channels with subliminal mind control.
Jarod Well, that was very considerate of you Mr Hollis.
Hollis You aren’t up loading filthy pictures are you?
Jarod Well that depends on how you define filthy.
The Centre Tech Room Sub-Level 5
Broots It came down the line just a few minutes ago.
Sydney Jarod.
Miss Parker This had better be good Syd… Mr Raines? How did he find out about him?
Sydney Must be the disks from the digital simulation archives.
Miss Parker Do you think he realises what it means?
Sydney We’re talking about Jarod. If he doesn’t now he soon will. He is a genius.
Store
Jarod You can stretch it, bounce it and copy newsprint with it and it comes in its own plastic egg.
Girl Yeah. See the egg is like a symbol of this stuff’s birth. You know? It’s being. It’s not just putty. It’s whatever you want it to be.
Jarod Oh. Well why would they call something this versatile silly?
Girl Would you buy something called versatile putty?
Jarod I don’t know. But I’ll buy this. I’ll buy one hundred.
Girl Cool.
Clearview Institute
Deaf Woman Hello! You must be Jarod.
Jarod Signing: I want to learn how to lip read.
Deaf Woman We will be very happy to help you with that.
Jarod The view is better from the inside.
Hollis I thought I smelt some smoke. Everything seems to be A okay.
Jarod Good.
Hollis Never figured you for a pilot.
Jarod Well if it makes you feel any better I’m not really a pilot.
Hollis Oh right and I’m Jimmy Hoffa. Could have told me. Man likes to know when he’s about to have his throat ripped out and fed to him.
Jarod It didn’t seem important.
Hollis Important? Does that look important? Fleets of these behemoths, like crazed flying monkeys, terrorising US citizens from Seattle to Miami.
Jarod Terrorising?
Hollis Halcion gas. CIA created it in 1971.
Jarod 1969.
Hollis I knew it! You’re one of them.
Jarod Will you stop please? This is a mass hallucinogen. This is pretty potent.
Hollis Not any more. I cut it with 50% oxygen. Hell your dentist has stronger stuff. Even so I caught an accidental whiff. Thought I was Eleanor Roosevelt for the best part of an afternoon.
Jarod Your point being?
Hollis Remember the medfly? No such thing. Lock your doors and bolt your windows amigo, the exterminator’s coming and his name is Skyvionics.
Jarod Skyvionics?
Hollis Merchants of death. Trust me. I’ve been a clown in that circus. It’s anything but the greatest show on earth.
The Tail Fin Bar
Jarod That’s quite a collection.
Bartender The only thing we have now to hang up there is you, the Skyvionics boys since we don’t have a base anymore. What’s your poison?
Jarod Excuse me?
Bartender What’s your drink?
Jarod I was raised on optimised nutritional supplements, hearts of palm, wheat grass, asparagus mixed with tomato.
Bartender Virgin Mary, celery garnished.
Jarod Could you make it two please. I’m expecting company.
Bartender Hmm hmm.
Gant What the hell do you think you were doing up there?
Jarod Practice makes perfect.
Gant You know what I’m talking about Wright.. Clearview Ridge.
Jarod I was re-tracing Ronald Collins’ last flight.
Bartender Two Virgin Mary’s.
Jarod I hope this is your poison.
Gant You knew I’d come after you.
Jarod Toughest SPO in the field, at least that’s what they tell me.
Gant Ha ha.
Jarod So, Lieutenant Gant, why is the Airforce so concerned with a civilian flier?
Gant You’re testing a system that’s designed to protect military pilots. It’s my job to make sure it’s safe.
Jarod And when I’m up for wingman on Friday’s test I don’t fly avionics I’m not familiar with. It’s my job to know what I’m getting into.
Gant True.
Jarod And from what I understand Collins had plenty of time to eject.
Gant Time yes, ability no.
Jarod His record in the Gulf says otherwise.
Gant Well, between me and you and that hall of fame, Collins didn’t eject because he blacked out.
Jarod What are you saying?
Gant Put it this way. His drink of choice was not a Virgin Mary.
Jarod Is that true?
Gant You can take my word for it or steal my report from Special Projects Office in D.C.
Jarod Now that would be impossible.
Gant Look, not even his wife fought the allegations and they cost her his pension. Two Skyvionics employees placed Collins right here in this very bar the night before the crash.
Jarod Who?
Gant Lawson for one.
Jarod Who else?
Gant Tom Matthews.
Matthews Nice flying Jarod. Bring her on home.
Matthews You weren’t kidding when you said you were a quick study.
Jarod Ah. Beginners luck.
Matthews We’re making a big announcement after the test. Scimitar’s going commercial. By the year 2000 that Scimitar chip’s going to be on every airliner in the country.
Jarod I feel safer already.
Matthews well, I just want you to know that I’ve been talking to the corporate types about you. You’re our best flier, hands down.
Jarod But?
Matthews But I gotta to give the test to Dixon on Friday.
Jarod I understand. You don’t want a repeat of the last test.
Matthews We won’t. This time no test pilot is going to let me down. Ron Collins could have flown circles around you two.
Jarod Instead he hit the bottle. I’m surprised you missed that.
Matthews I called him on it the morning of the test. He said he was fine.
Jarod So it wasn’t a mechanical failure?
Matthews The residual alcohol in his blood caused him to black out when he pulled too many G’s. Collins was flying a safe plane.
Jarod I’m sure he was.
Ron Collins Residence
Jarod Is your Mom home?
Ronny Collins Mom!
Lindsay Collins You were with Ron in Saudi Arabia?
Jarod Your husband. He saved my tail on the third night over Baghdad. When I heard about the accident I, well I tried to make my way here as soon as I could. I want to tell you how sorry I am. Me and a couple of the guys we petitioned the CNO’s office about getting Ron a posthumous Gulf War Commendation.
Ronny Collins What’s wrong Mom?
Lindsay Collins Nothing. That’s great, really great. Have you had supper yet?

tonight?
Annie Tonight? Oh no no no, Mr Sloane. I can’t because my daughter is having…
Sloane Is a very lovely girl who knows how valuable her mother is to this firm. Annie’s the best Jarod.
Annie Annie do this. Annie do that. I tell you it’s like being Sloane’s wife without the fringe benefits. Too bad pay checks are harder to quit than cigarettes. So, did you need something too?
Jarod Actually Bradley Dumont asked me to go over an old case file. Marcus Whittaker?
Annie Oh yeah. Mr Sloane had those files moved down to the basement. But I’m going to warn you it is impossible to find anything down there.
Jarod Nothing’s impossible.
Basement
Outside
Isaac Jarod!
Jarod Isaac what are you doing here?
Isaac I got to thinking how nice you were, how decent, and I wanted to repay your kindness.
Jarod Repay?
Isaac My Chariot.
Jarod Isaac it’s beautiful.
Isaac It will be more beautiful after thirty-seven payments – that’s when I plan to trade it in for a limousine. Actually I offer a very valuable service. You’d be surprised how many cab drivers won’t pick up a man in a dress.
Jarod Really? Why?
Isaac The truth is I’d like to offer my services as your personal chauffeur.
Jarod No kidding? That’s great. Now are you sure you have a driver’s licence?
Isaac Don’t worry boss, you’re in good hands. And I promise to be a perfect lady.
Man Hey baby!
Isaac Up yours pal!
The Centre
Sydney Very good.
Miss Parker Sydney, a word? Do you want to tell me what’s going on?
Sydney Nothing really. An alpha brain wave experiment. Quite promising actually.
Miss Parker That’s not what I mean and you know it.
Sydney You spoke to the Director?
Miss Parker Answer the question.
Sydney Jarod wants to make a deal.
Miss Parker A deal?
Sydney He wants to find out the truth, or part of it. It is the humane thing to do.
Miss Parker You are out of line lecturing anybody about humanity. I’m not the one who kept Jarod locked up for thirty years. I’m killing your deal Sydney. And then I’m going to find Jarod and I’m going to end this thing once and for all.
Outside a bookshop
Isaac Everybody’s a critic.
Taxi
Isaac Doesn’t this music just give you chills up and down your spine?
Jarod It’s very sad.
Isaac It’s the Blues baby.
Jarod The Blues? I like it.
Isaac It’s about life. It’s about pain. It’s about truth.
Jarod Truth is good.
Isaac Yeah look at me for example. I come out here every day like a target. I say to the world Ha! This is me, take it or leave it.
Jarod Can I ask you a question?
Isaac Why do I dress like this?
Jarod Well it does seem to draw attention.
Isaac I don’t know why I do it. I just know it’s right for me. I mean I grew up like everybody else. I played football, dated a cheer leader, but I never felt complete until I found this. It hasn’t been easy.
Jarod Why do it then?
Isaac It’s who I am. People can’t go around acting like they’re something they aren’t . You do that long enough and pretty soon you can’t find yourself any more. Know what I mean?
Jarod Yeah.
California State Correctional Facility
Isaac So who are we looking for?
Jarod His name is Marcus Whittaker.
Isaac A friend of yours?
Jarod Not exactly.
Isaac What’d he do?
Jarod Nothing. Nothing at all.
The Centre
Director The Tower has considered all the variables and has decided to move forward with the deal.
Miss Parker You can’t be serious?
Director I think you know that I am.
Miss Parker The Chairman is going to hear about this.
Director Your father cast the deciding vote. The information Jarod requested will be on your desk within the hour. Use it wisely.
Jarod’s Lair
DSA: 3rd July, ’72
Sydney You only have one shot at the terrorist Jarod.
Young Jarod I had the dream again.
Sydney It’s just a dream Jarod. Forget about it and concentrate.
Young Jarod Is it possible to forget who you are and where you came from?
Sydney Jarod, please.
Young Jarod It’s just that in this dream I can’t see my mother’s face. She’s in the yard hanging the wash.
Sydney One shot Jarod. Time’s running out. The hostages are counting on you.
Young Jarod But I want to see her Sydney. I want to see my mother’s face.
Sydney Finish the simulation and I’ll see to it that you do.
Young Jarod Promise?
Sydney Promise.
Young Jarod Wait. I can’t complete the mission. I might hit a hostage. I might kill an innocent person.
Sydney Sometimes Jarod one life must be sacrificed in order to save others.
Video Tape
TV Announcer Murder suspect Marcus Whittaker accused of beating Audrey Price to death in her apartment was arrested in the early morning hours in his janitor’s quarters of this west LA apartment building. Marcus Whittaker has an unusual benefactor in this case: His employer real estate magnate Michael Metzger whose company owns the building in which the murder took place.
Outside the Apartment Block
Isaac How long are we going to stay here? Hel…loooooo!
Flashback to tape
Metzger Marjorie Price’s death is a tragedy but Marcus Whittaker shouldn’t be forced to take the wrap for the sloppy handling of this investigation. I’m just grateful that Ben Sloane has agreed to represent Marcus.
Sloane Mr Metzger was with me on my boat when word reached him that a murder had taken place on one of his properties. Naturally I offered my services.
Jarod Isaac, let’s go shopping.
Isaac Ooh! Now you’re talking my language.
Shoe Store
Store Assistant It’s creepy. He’s been doing that for almost an hour. Check out his girl friend.
Jarod Are these all the boat shoes you have?
Store Assistant Yes Sir.
Jarod I’ll take them all.
Store Assistant You want seven pairs of boat shoes?
Jarod Mmm hmm.
Isaac Do you carry these in a thirteen?
Jarod’s Lair
Jarod Well?
Boy I did it, just like you said.
Jarod And?
Boy I dragged it around behind my bike.
Jarod Excellent. Oh yes, right. Five dollars.
Boy That’s right. I have friends, we could really mess up your car if you’re interested.
Jarod I’ll let you know.
Boy Cool!
TV Interview
Edwards Mr Whittaker is the only possible perpetrator. The defence has no relevant evidence to the contrary.
Jarod You’re wrong Mr Edwards.

Book Signing
Edwards Thank you. Enjoy the book. My God, what did you do – drag this behind a car?
Jarod Well actually I paid a kid to drag it behind his bike. Truthfully, it’s been like a Bible to me.
Edwards Oh I’m flattered. Who should I make this out to?
Jarod John Corey Junior.
Edwards I knew a John Corey at Dartmouth. You’re not…
Jarod Guilty. Dad’s been after me to look you up for years.
Bar
Edwards So there’s your Father wearing nothing but a drunken grin running up and down the Durham Hallway shouting “Bonsai!”
Jarod Dear old Dad.
Edwards Yeah. I never saw a better litigator in my life.
Jarod He said the same thing about you. I especially admired the way you brought down Ben Sloane a few years ago. The Whittaker trial.
Edwards Oh. Sloane had no case.
Jarod Really? What about the shoe print?
Edwards How did you know about that?
Jarod I did a paper, The People Versus Whittaker at UCLA. I read the case files.
Edwards Five thousand pages?
Jarod 5612 to be exact.
Edwards Michael Metzger buys Whittaker the most expensive lawyer in the city and the guy drops the ball. We couldn’t believe he missed it.
Jarod So the DA knew about the print?
Edwards We provided in Discovery. We kept waiting for Sloane to play the card, to create doubt, but it never came.
Jarod And you never said anything.
Edwards We had witnesses who said that Marcus Whittaker was obsessed with Audrey Price. His prints were all over the apartment. He was caught in the janitor’s quarters cleaning her blood off his clothes. Now, you don’t have to be Prouse to connect those dots.
Jarod And you never found the murder weapon?
Edwards Marcus Whittaker was guilty of murder. Ben Sloane was just guilty of being a bad lawyer.